Witch's Marsh Orion

Had Esma been younger, she would have taken Minnow's words as an absolute truth and a promise to do so. She had learned lately that this was not always the case with other people. They tended to express things that they had no intention of ever doing or fulfilling and the girl found it difficult to tell, when it was happening. 

"What is that you do not know yet?" Esma asked, curious to find out, how a person knew that there was more to learn. Especially, when they were as old as her companion now.